Dead motherboard? Or CPU?

[DellAxim]

I have a PC Chips W30 motherboard with an Athlon 2400+ CPU. When I hook it up and try to turn it on, nothing happens except a red LED on the board lights up. The fan in the power supply doesn't even start. I've read the manual for the MB, but it says nothing about what this red LED means. Does anybody have any idea?

I'm not sure if it's the MB or the CPU that isn't working...but I don't have any other parts to test them in.

 

[digital_exhaust]

Try jumping your psu.. pull it out of your case and ground the green wire on the 20 or 24 pin connector to any of the black wires, plug it in and see if the fan spins up.. if not, you have a dead psu.. if it does, odds are your board is dead....